Amelia Black
Amelia Black is a ceramic researcher, material artist and writer/facilitator based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice centres material provenance, landscape as story, and the ethics of extraction. Her work seeks to relate with material and place to build accountability and relationality into the act of making.


Selected Work

Biography

This practice takes place on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge the ongoing relationship between Country, clay, making and storytelling.






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Shadow Tiles, 2024

Terracotta clay, terracotta terra sigilatta, ball clay terra sigilatta and salts.  A continuation of We Came with Visions but not with Sight, this series returns to the Merri Creek to record shadows cast by native trees onto terracotta from South Australia. Where the previous series worked with one clay body, this series introduces multiple terra sigillatas, allowing the same shadow to read differently across each surface.

Materials sourced entirely within the Australian landscape.